"The AFT has also partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic to train teachers on AI. Weingarten told NBC News that despite their collaboration, she views many of the big technology companies as “playing a really negative role in terms of trying to push more tech into schools.”

Last night, ICE purposefully targeted medic, pacifist & veteran Adam Marshall, an organizer with Eyes on ICE, while he was trying to help protestors at Delaney Hall who had been gassed three times. They slammed him to the ground and ripped off his gas mask. He was arrested and dumped 10 miles away.

"Today’s poem ... was built to last," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1521. Read "You Try to Fix It" by @surlyacres.bsky.social, originally published in RHINO: bit.ly/4fBIJdU Episodes of The Slowdown are published every weekday in your preferred podcast app!

The first of the yellowtails on the first of the lilacs. Both small and new.

Folks should be aware this has been retracted: RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The LMS strips agency from students and teachers and staff alike, forcing them into the template of what the software engineers have coded, into the template of what the LMS companies have decided pedagogy looks like,” writes Audrey Watters.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

I think I've reached a tipping point with my pinning of e-mails. I shouldn't have to scroll down SO FAR to reach the end of the "pinned" emails. My metaphorical corkboard has too many papers "tacked" to it. I broke the metaphor. Now I'm just stacking. Piling. I don't deserve cute thumbtack icons.

We're at war to reopen a strait that was open until we went to war Masterful gambit, sir!

Been a minute since I had a villanelle out there. Here's a one, in the latest South 85 Journal. Thanks to the folks at the Converse University Low Residency MFA program and Editor Leslie Pietrzyk for putting together a great issue. www.south85journal.com/both-things/

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

Exploring the human dimensions of space exploration: the (In)hospitable Space Conference approaches! Details on keynote speakers + conference excursion were recently updated, and our registration deadline is April 24. Will you join us from May 25-27? www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

4/29/26 at 7pm ET on Zoom we’re launching this fabulous issue into the stratosphere with 1-minute readings by Issue 12 contributors. Register here: washcoll.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Oh look. The thing that was predicted is happening, with a huge thick underline under my assertion about the hubris of devs believing they could code around the fundamentals of Garbage In, Garbage Out. The models are ingesting AI garbage, and spitting out more AI garbage. bsky.app/profile/hype...

The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!

Experts estimate that the IRS stands to lose up to $479 billion over the next decade as immigrants face deportation and disengage from the formal economy. https://wapo.st/4vvl1pj

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

So much in this conversation w/ Eli Clare hit me, esp. the part about changing our relationship to the messages that live inside our body-minds. And the part about living brokenhearted. My favorite episode so far of @deanspade.bsky.social's Love in a F*cked-up World. open.spotify.com/episode/4wLa...

"What Iranians deserve is so ordinary is almost embarrassing to say aloud. They deserve not to spend their mornings calculating whether they will survive until evening. They deserve to be seen as people... not as acceptable losses, not as the unfortunate human context around a geopolitical problem."

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

NBD, just four humans further out in space than any other humans before. #Artemis2

This is what the world’s richest person has done and he’s only been rewarded since then.

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

We wanna get every interested collaborator paired up with someone ASAP for our 9th issue. Now we need someone in EST or willing to work across zones! Deadline for the project is April 30th so there's still time to sign up! forms.gle/XNxkumZUDpQ8...

Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting guidance from scientists on what to capture when they get closer to the moon. n.pr/4c6V8Dg

Audrey Watters on Mary Oliver, poetry, and AI technologies: "At what point can you no longer even plan to do things with your one wild and precious life because these technologies have obliterated your ability to even imagine something outside their dictates, their designs for you?"

A brand-new poem with a ridiculously long title — “Flipping Back and Forth Between the #Artemis II Launch Live Stream and the Live Stream of the Supreme Court Hearing Arguments Regarding #Birthright Citizenship” — just published at @newversenews.bsky.social newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/04/flip...

Thuhhh-reaaaad 🧵

A nice piece from @swapnakrishna.com about the plan for the #Artemis II crew to take a new Earthrise photo while swinging around the Moon

Donald Trump and the GOP gave our nation's wealthiest a $5 TRILLION tax cut. That's more than enough to cover these costs. That's what he's prioritized over your health and child care. Here are some other things Trump has prioritized:

Got a new poem up at the always-affecting @rogueagent.bsky.social -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2

Got a new poem up at the always-affecting Rogue Agent -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

This is so cool. #artemis

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Salty teeth, cold briskets, and tart & sweet… RA issue 133 is here! All new poetry including @surlyacres.bsky.social @clayrebenz.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @melaniemccabe.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social with art by @rachelturney.bsky.social🌻 // rogueagentjournal.com/issue133

Someone smarter than I am ought to attempt a #contrapuntal poem engaging with / harnessing the simultaneity of the Supreme Court arguments re: birthright citizenship and the #Artemis II countdown. I know there's something there, but my brain can't poem it. Maybe later. Or maybe you should try.

private equity is sucking the life out of everything around us

Once again, the stock market is not "the economy;" it's a mood ring for the plutocracy

Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.

‘…until I find you asleep in the long, dry grass with dragonflies drinking the sweat off your arms.’ Just love the heartbreaking structure of this new flash from @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 🚜 bulbregion.com/You-and-Me-a...

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...